{{Short description|British politician}} {{other people}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} [[File:Coat of arms of Sir Richard de Cornwall.png|thumb|200px|Arms of Cornewall: ''Argent, a lion rampant gules ducally crowned or a bordure engrailed sable bezantee'', being the arms of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1209–1272) with difference a bordure engrailed<ref name=court>{{cite book|editor1-last=Courthope|editor1-first=William|editor-link=William Courthope (officer of arms)|title=Debrett's Baronetage of England|date=1835|location=London|page=185|edition=7th|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DUcRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA185}}</ref>]] '''Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet''' (8 November 1748 – 26 August 1819)<ref name=cok>{{cite book|editor-link=George Edward Cokayne|editor1-last=Cokayne|editor1-first=George Edward|title=Complete Baronetage|date=1900|publisher=William Pollard|location=Exeter|pages=130–131|url=https://archive.org/stream/completebaroneta05coka#page/130/mode/2up}}</ref> of Moccas Court, Herefordshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807.
==Origins== Born George Amyand, he was the eldest son and heir of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (1720–1766) by his wife Anna Maria Korteen, daughter of John Abraham Korteen, a Hamburg merchant.<ref name = Debrett>{{cite book | last = Debrett | first = John | publisher = G. Woodfall | edition = 5th | title = Debrett's Baronetage of England | volume = II | year = 1824 | location = London | pages = 478 }}</ref> In 1766 he succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet and inherited his interest in the banking firm of Amyand, Staples and Mercer.<ref name = Debrett/>
==Career== Amyand was educated at Eton College then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated Master of Arts in 1769. On 18 July 1771 he married Catherine Cornewall, only daughter and heiress of Velters Cornewall of Moccas in Herefordshire, MP.<ref name = hop/> In 1771 he assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Cornewall in lieu of his patronymic,<ref>{{ London Gazette | issue = 11162 |page=1 | date = 16 July 1771 }}</ref> in accordance with the bequest from his father-in-law, an inheritance which included Moccas Park in Herefordshire. In 1773 he received a Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of Oxford.<ref name = cok/>
Cornewall entered Parliament at the 1774 general election, as member of parliament for Herefordshire and held the seat until 1796. In 1784 he was a member of the St. Alban's Tavern group who tried to bring Fox and Pitt together.<ref name=hop>{{HistoryofParliament|1754|last=Drummond|first=Mary |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/cornewall-sir-george-1748-1819 |title=Cornewall, Sir George (1748-1819)}}</ref> He was returned again for Herefordshire in a contest at the 1802 general election and was returned again in 1806. He decided not to face another contest at the 1807 general election.<ref name=hop2>{{HistoryofParliament|1790|last=Williams|first=M. J. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cornewall-sir-george-1748 |title=Cornewall, Sir George (1748-1819)}}</ref> He served in the Herefordshire Militia and became its colonel in 1805.<ref name = cok/>
thumb|Moccas Court Cornewall was owner of a plantation in Grenada, West Indies, and in 1775–81 rebuilt Moccas Court, the family's inherited residence in Herefordshire.<ref name=moc>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.moccas-court.co.uk/history.html|website=Moccas Court|accessdate=16 June 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716231743/http://www.moccas-court.co.uk/history.html|archivedate=16 July 2014 }}</ref> He inherited Mouse Castle, Cusop but exchanged it.<ref>{{cite book | title=A history of the castles of Herefordshire and their lords | last=Robinson | first=Charles John | publisher=Longman | location = London | year=1869 | pages=40–41 | url=https://archive.org/stream/ahistorycastles00robigoog#page/n71/mode/2up }}</ref> In 1800, he sold Frilsham, Berkshire, which his father had purchased in 1762, to Robert Hayward.<ref>{{cite book | editor1-first=William | editor1-last=Page | editor1-link=William Henry Page | editor2-first=P H | editor2-last=Ditchfield | editor2-link=Peter Ditchfield | title=A History of the County of Berkshire | volume=4 | chapter=Parishes: Frilsham | publisher=Victoria County History | location=London | year=1924 | pages=70–73 | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp70-73 | accessdate=31 January 2016}}</ref>
He served as a Family Trustee of the British Museum from 1788 until his death.<ref name=corn/>
==Later years and family== Cornewall died in 1819 and was buried at Moccas.<ref name = cok /> By his wife Catherine, he had two sons and six daughters:<ref name = court/>
*Catherine-Frances Cornewall (1773–1826), married Samuel Peploe of Garnstone Castle, Weobley 15 March 1796.<ref name=corn>{{cite book|last1=Foljambe|first1=Cecil George|author1-link=Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool|last2=Reade|first2=Compton|title=The House of Cornewall|date=1908|publisher=Jakeman and Carver|location=Hereford|pages=119–121|url=https://archive.org/stream/houseofcornewall00live#page/n155/mode/2up}}</ref> *Sir George Cornewall, 3rd Baronet (1774–1835), eldest son and heir. *Hannah Cornewall (died young)<ref>Debrett's gives this daughter's name as Harriet; Foljambe and Compton (1908) has Hannah.</ref> *Anna-Maria Cornewall (1779–1872) *Frances-Elizabeth Cornewall (1783–1864), married Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford, 12 December 1805. *Charles Cornewall (1785–1822). *Harriet Cornewall (1787–1838), married Thomas Frankland Lewis, 12 January 1805.<ref>{{HistoryofParliament |1790 |last=Thorne |first=R. G. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/lewis-thomas-frankland-1780-1855|year=2006 |title=Lewis, Thomas Frankland (1780-1855)}}</ref> *Caroline Cornewall (1789–1875), married Sir William Duff-Gordon, 5 February 1810
Catherine Cornewall's family claimed descent from a younger branch of the de Cornewall family, Barons of Burford, lineally descended from Sir Richard of Cornwall<ref name=court/> (d.1296, slain by an arrow at the Siege of Berwick), a natural son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1209–1272), (2nd son of King John) by his mistress Joan de Bath. Sir Richard of Cornwall married Joan FitzAlan, daughter of John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel, and by her had three sons and a daughter. His daughter, Joan of Cornwall, married Sir John Howard, from whom the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, are descended.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Richardson|first1=Douglas|editor1-last=Everingham|editor1-first=Kimball G|title=Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families|date=2011|publisher=CreateSpace|location=Salt Lake City|isbn=9781461045137|edition=2nd}} Vol. I pp. 574-5; Vol II p 265.</ref> The arms of de Cornwall were: ''Argent, a lion rampant gules ducally crowned or a bordure engrailed sable bezantee'',<ref name=court/> being the arms of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall with difference a bordure engrailed. ==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{hansard-contribs | sir-george-cornewall | Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet }}
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